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| 2 | rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol client
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| 3 | ==========================================
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| 4 |
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| 5 | rdesktop is an open source client for Microsoft's RDP protocol. It is
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| 6 | known to work with Windows versions such as NT 4 Terminal Server,
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| 7 | 2000, XP, 2003, 2003 R2, Vista, 2008, 7, and 2008 R2. rdesktop
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| 8 | currently implements the RDP version 4 and 5 protocols.
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| 9 |
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| 10 | Installation
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| 11 | ------------
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| 12 | rdesktop uses a GNU-style build procedure. Typically all that is necessary
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| 13 | to install rdesktop is the following::
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| 14 |
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| 15 | % ./configure
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| 16 | % make
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| 17 | % make install
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| 18 |
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| 19 | The default is to install under /usr/local. This can be changed by adding
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| 20 | --prefix=directory to the configure line.
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| 21 |
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| 22 | Note for Subversion users
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| 23 | -------------------------
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| 24 | If you have downloaded a snapshot of rdesktop using Subversion, you
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| 25 | will first need to run ./bootstrap in order to generate the build
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| 26 | infrastructure. This is not necessary for release versions of
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| 27 | rdesktop.
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| 28 |
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| 29 | Invocation
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| 30 | ----------
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| 31 | Simply run::
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| 32 |
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| 33 | % rdesktop server
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| 34 |
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| 35 | where server is the name of the Terminal Services machine. (If you receive
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| 36 | "Connection refused", this probably means that the server does not have
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| 37 | Terminal Services enabled, or there is a firewall blocking access.)
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| 38 |
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| 39 | You can also specify a number of options on the command line. These are listed
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| 40 | in the rdesktop manual page (run "man rdesktop").
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| 41 |
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| 42 | Smart-card support notes
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| 43 | ------------------------
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| 44 | The smart-card support module uses PCSC-lite. You should use PCSC-lite 1.2.9 or
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| 45 | later.
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| 46 |
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| 47 | To enable smart-card support in the rdesktop just run "./configure" with the
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| 48 | "--enable-smartcard" option. Also you can enable smart-card debug with
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| 49 | additional "--with-debug-smartcard" option.
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